User manual SOUNDCRAFT TS24

[. . . ] Pressing these areas on the touchscreen will press those buttons, the function of which varies from screen to screen. These are referred to in this document as soft keys, and a named soft key will be referred to as [NAME], where NAME is the wording within the soft key. In some pages, areas of the screen may be pressed for direct access to parameters. Once selected, some parameters are set up from a list of options presented on selection of the parameter, others by moving the jog wheel followed by touching the screen, or simply pressing the jog wheel. [. . . ] The VCA control fader works in a conventional way, and has a normal fader scale marked in dBs. The position of the VCA fader is added to the slave faders. The slaves themselves will not move, but the value of the VCA Master Fader is added to all appropriate slaves. Assigning an input to a VCA is therefore like adding a second fader into the channel path in series with the first, but the maximum gain applicable from fader combinations cannot exceed +10dB (see below). The VCA Master Faders are motorised, and their position may be stored in the automation system along with everything else. They are scoped out of recall by default. Just as for other parts of the system, the VCA faders may be removed from recall via the Scope function (see Replay Scope below). These faders may then be viewed as Live offsets of stored fader positions. The advantage of VCA groups over ordinary audio groups is that changes to VCA levels will affect post-fader sends from any slave input channels, and the MUTE and SOLO switches are linked in logic to those on the slave channels. See Automationbelow for information about how VCA fader positions affect sceneset recall. TS24 Touchscreens Functions 5. 13 There are 8 VCA control faders, but the system supports up to 20 control groups per cue. The standard Master Surface alone can only handle 8 control groups. When the MUTE is removed from the VCA master fader, the slave channels will be returned to their status before the VCA MUTE was triggered (i. e. MUTEd if they were muted, open if they were not). Note that channels muted via a VCA master fader cannot be unmuted locally on the channel. Muting a slave from a VCA master effectively locks out the local channel MUTE switch (above the SELect switch). TS24 Touchscreens Functions 5. 15 Setup Setup contains all global configuration parameters, along with user preferences and Disk handling. Disk Handling [DISK] brings up the disk access page. File Types There are three types of disk file: . PRJ, . SYX and . ENV. . PRJ files are the main project files, and contain all the automation da . SYX files are System Exclusive files. These are manufacturer-exclusive MIDI files which allow a user to dump the memory contents (parameter settings) of a MIDI device over the MIDI link. A single System Exclusive dump may be attached to any project, and will be automatically sent to the MIDI ports when the main associated project (. PRJ file) is loaded. . ENV files contain the user preferences. Using these files, the operator may save their preferred operating environment, including touchscreen configuration preferences, to a floppy disk, and carry it with them. Whenever using any Broadway in the future, it will then be possible to load their own working environment onto the system without affecting the stored automation data. 5. 16 TS24 Touchscreens Functions Saving [SAVE AS] allows the user to save the current console setup as a new project file. The console will prompt for a file name, which may be up to eight characters in length. [. . . ] This allows selection of the Input Channels to be tested. TS24 Touchscreens Functions 5. 23 CLEAR ALL will remove all highlights, Cancel returns to the AUDIO DIAGNOSTICS page. When the required Inputs have been selected, pressing DONE will step on to the Output Dialogue. Select the required Outputs using the same method as the Input dialogue. Pressing DONE when the required Outputs have been selected will bring up the AUDIO TEST OPTIONS page. At this point, the user may decide to include in the test or ignore the EQ, Inserts and Pre/Post-fade sends. Pressing any of these options will toggle them into / out of the test. [. . . ]